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...Brazilians, French, Tunisians. Senegalese, and U.S. (white, Negro and Nisei) troops-were making headway. If Rimini falls, the way will lie open into the Po valley and the Gothic Line will be flanked. Last week in the course of this fighting, another nation was precipitated, almost unnoticed, into the abyss...
Your comments were in italics, I see, by an experienced observer returned from Spain. Let us have more of these observations. America has been great because she grew up without the restraints which have held Europe in an abyss these many centuries...
...putting aside money from their Federal income taxes. "Put on your Indian paint and feathers and join me," cried the 48-year-old, youthful, minister's daughter. "I owe it to my country ... to help rectify this horrible mistake which will most certainly carry us right into the abyss of Communism." Cited as U.S. industry's leading lady (by the National Association of Manufacturers), one of the country's ten best-dressed women (by the Fashion Academy), 100 outstanding women (by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt), Miss Kellems explained that she needs the Government's money...
...predictable Frank C. Walker, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, last week let a nationwide radio audience in on the worst-kept secret of contemporary politics: the Democratic Party's platform for 1944 will be Franklin D. Roosevelt. Not "local problems," said Frank Walker, walking gingerly around the abyss of OPA, but "unfailing loyalty to our Commander in Chief" will determine next year's election...
...real reason was different and deeper. At a moment when the French Revolution had led first to the Terror, next to Napoleon, and third to the edge of the abyss of world dictatorship, Wellington's task was to prove to the people by his leadership that conservatism was in their interest, as he had proved to his army that his strategy was better than Napoleon's. Wellington suffered from many things-fever and loneliness in India that turned his hair grey at 32, a botched marriage; disgrace and empty victory and the fanatical hatred of some...